What's New?

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Here's a list of the main changes I've made to the site, from newest to oldest. For changes to the software, see the version history.

11th January 2011

• Added photos of new models made by Ulrich Mikloweit.
  

28th September 2010

• Added photos of lots of models made by Sergey Kaliberda.
  

21st September 2010

• Added photo of Piotr Pawlikowski's new model, a compound of 12 pentagrammic crossed antiprisms.
  

24th July 2010

• Added my first video tutorial, showing how to replace each polyhedron within a compound with a different shape.

13th April 2010

• Added mention on home page of image from Stella4D being used in the New York Review of Books.

24th September 2009

• Added screen shot of the net of the cantellated 120-cell.
  

5th April 2009

• Added photos of a shape I made which can flex into either a regular dodecahedron or a rhombic dodecahedron. There's even a YouTube video!
  

7th March 2009

• Added a new Rubik's Cube-style twisty puzzle made from paper.
  

1st March 2009

• I moved to a new place, and shifted all my polyhedra from my old bookcase to two new display cases.
  

2nd August 2008

• My published 2004 paper discussing a range of paper polyhedra made using Great Stella is now available online.

25th July 2008

• Mike Bedford has reviewed Great Stella in PC Plus magazine! Issue 271, August 2008, p46-47. I've added a couple of quotes from it to the quotes page.

28th June 2008

• Added more detail to the pages for each Platonic solid, showing some stellations, facetings and compounds. See tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

14th May 2008

• You can now buy framed hi-res prints and single greeting cards of my polyhedral bookcase.
  

2nd May 2008

• Added a quote from Jonathan Bowers about Stella4D to the quotes page.

16th March 2008

• Added more puzzles.
  

3rd March 2008

• Updated Enumeration of Stellations page, to include some new results, including counts for reflexible stellations of the icosidodecahedron, truncated icosahedron and truncated dodecahedron, according to Miller's rules.

4th February 2008

• Added product comparison page, to compare features between all Stella products.

11th January 2008

• Stella 4.4 released!
  See the version history for a list of changes.

10th January 2008

• The web site has moved!
  The site is now hosted at www.software3d.com. Old URLs will redirect to the new site for a while, but not indefinitely. So please update your links from this form:
  • BAD: http://web.aanet.com.au/robertw/XXX.html
  to the new format:
  • GOOD: http://www.software3d.com/XXX.php
  Note: all .html extensions also change to .php.
• Added Forums for discussion of Stella and my other software. They're a bit empty right now, so come and start the ball rolling!

4th January 2008

• Added photos of models made by Giacomo Artoni.
  

2nd November 2007

• Stella 4.3 released!
  See the version history for a list of changes.

6th July 2007

• Added tutorial about making hollow spherical polyhedra.
  

27th June 2007

• Stella 4.2 released!
  See the version history for a list of changes.

26th May 2007

• Added larger photo of Magnus Wenninger's models of polytopes projected from 4D to 3D.
  

8th May 2007

• Stella 4.1.1 released!
  See the version history for a list of changes.

24th March 2007

• Stella 4.1 released!
  See the version history for a list of changes.
• Updated tutorial about making paper models of 4D polytopes.
• Completed a model of a cross-section of the great stellated 120-cell
  
• Added Magnus Wenninger's models of polytopes projected from 4D to 3D.

13th March 2007

• Stella 4.0 released!
  This is a major upgrade with many new and improved features. See the version history for a list of all changes.
• Stella4D released!
  This is a new product which includes everything from Great Stella and adds support for 4D polytopes. See the version history for details. Download a free demo version here.
• Price drop!
  All existing products have come down in price. See the Purchase page for details.
• Lots of changes to website in order to include Stella4D.
• Completed these models:
  • Truncated tesseract - 3D projection of 4D polytope
  • Net of truncated tesseract - 3D net of 4D polytope
  • Cantitruncated tesseract - 3D projection of 4D polytope
  • Topological Small Stellated Dodecahedron
  • Leonardo-style compound of 2 tetrahedra

  

11th February 2007

• Added Piotr Pawlikowski's model of the compound of 5 great rhombicuboctahedra to the Users' Models page.